Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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directed by Chris Columbus...
What director Chris Columbus has produced, however, is a very funny, satisfying and entertaining flick in the tradition of his other popular films which include Mrs. Doubtfire and the Home Alone movies...
...Hollywood wanted to make him a star, so he tries that in Nine Months, a big burly romp from director Chris Columbus (the Home Alone hits, Mrs. Doubtfire). Yet another high-concept comedy based on a French film, Nine Months tracks a child psychologist (Grant) and his dance-teacher lover (Julianne Moore, acute as always) from pregnancy through delivery of a baby the man isn't at all ready...
...Columbus sidesteps certain iffy issues raised in the French original--where the man, on hearing of his impending fatherhood, says to his girlfriend, "I have the honor to ask you to have an abortion," and later has a sexual fling on the side--for more general, genial comedy. The movie also gets unwontedly frantic toward the end, with slapstick brawls and auto injuries. (Note to Hollywood: Can you outlaw funny car crashes, starting right now?) But the film has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable, and Grant eventually looks comfortable in the main role...
...some things apparently don't change. The Air Force said last week that Wickson will become a full-fledged instructor of fighter fundamentals at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. This does not please Joan Piper, an Air Force wife whose daughter Laura, 25, died on one of the helicopters. Says Piper: "I don't think he should be a role model for the next generation of young pilots...